Washington, DC — Operation Rescue calls on Pres. Barack Obama to withdraw the floundering nomination of Steve Six to the Federal Appeals Court.

“Based on the lack of support by Senators from Six’s home state and Six’s proven willingness to allow political and personal biases influence his professional decisions, Pres. Obama should spare the nation a protracted and divisive battle over this nominee and withdraw his name from consideration,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.

Kansas Senators Jerry Moran and Past Roberts have each issued statements opposing the Six nomination. Votes on his confirmation have been delayed several times in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Six is a pro-abortion Democrat who was appointed by former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who now serves as Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, to finish a term as Kansas Attorney General after Paul Morrison was forced to resign in disgrace amid an unseemly sex and abortion corruption scandal. Six was defeated last November in his own bid for Attorney General.

Even though Morrison had attempted in every way to subvert and obstruct investigations into Kansas abortion clinics, Six maintained and even advanced Morrison’s flawed legal strategies.